8 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN and Fridays and Saturdays at nine. Dining. MIKELL'S, 760 Columbus Ave., at 97th St. (864- 8832)-A worthy jazz and rhythm-and-blues haunt: Wednesday, May 1, Jeff Franzel; Thursday, May 2, singer Connie James; Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, soul and gospel singer CISSY HOUSTON; Monday, May 6, the ten-piece soul band JUt-AP STREET; Wednes- day and Thursday, May 8-9, pianist t-AICHEL CAt-AILO and his vital sextet; and Friday and Saturday, May 10-11, R. & B.-ists WHO IT IS. Music from about ten until two. Din- ing. RITZ, 119 E. 11th St (254-2800)-A big, fancy (but the appropriate dress is black sneakers rather than black tie) thirties ballroom, com- plete with eighties video, that presents past, present, future, past-perfect, present-perfect, future-perfect, and imperfect forms of rock and roll. Wednesday, May 1, reggae-ist PABLO t-AOSES; Thursday, May 2, the fluent bassist JAt-AAALADEEN TACUt-AA & COSt-AETIC and the Pe- dant-iks; Friday, May 3, Sussman Lawrence; Saturday, May 4, Urban Blight and Three Colors; Thursday, May 9, Cabaret Voltaire; Friday, May 10, Elliott Easton; and Satur- day, May 11, Einsturzende Neubauten. Shows tend to begin sometime after eleven. Dancing. ST. REGiS-SHERATON. Fifth Ave at 55th St (753- 4500)-In the King Cole (as in Old, not Nat) Room JOE BUSHKIN plays piano and sings, husky-voiced, Mondays through Thursdays at nine, and Fridays and Saturdays at nine and eleven. Dining. SEVENTH AVENUE SOUTH. 21 Seventh Ave. S., at Leroy St. (242-4694)- The jazz, funk, fu- sion, Latin-jazz lineup: Wednesday, May 1, trumpeter SHUNZO ONO; Thursday, May 2, sax- ophonist BILL EVANS; Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, saxophonist BOB BERG. drummer BOB t-AOSES. bassist CHIP JACKSON. and others; Sunday, May 5, KELVYNATOR. with guitarist KELVYN BELL; and Monday, May 6, the TOt-A PIERSON big band. Music from nine-thirty SOUNDS OF BRAZIL. 204 Varick St., at W. Houston St. (243-4940)- This place offers the kind of authentIc Brazilian exuberance that makes it feel like carnaval every weekend (and during the week isn't exactly dullsville, either). Wednesday and Thursday, May 1-2, singer Dianne Reeves; Friday and Saturday, May 3- 4, PÉ-DE-BOI; Sunday, May 5, flutist LLOYD MC NEILL and his quintet; Wednesday and Thursday, May 8-9, BURNING SPEAR and his reg- gae outfit, and Friday and Saturday, May 10-11, LOREt-AIL t-AACHADO & THE SARAVA BAHIA BAND. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. SWEET BASIL, 88 Seventh Ave. S., at Bleecker St. (242-1785)-Crowded and convivial. The SUN RA Ot-ANIVERSE JET SET ARKESTRA is in orbit un- til Sunday, May 5; Monday, May 6, is Duke Ellington night, courtesy of the Duke Elling- ton Society; and on Tuesday, May 7, the WORLD SAXOPHONE 9UARTET-HAt-AIET BLUIETT. JULIUS HEt-APHILL, OLIVER LAKE, and DAVID t-AURRAY- will take charge. Shows from about ten. Din- ing. VILLAGE GATE. 160 Bleecker St. (475-5120)-On Mondays, exciting, adept salsa bands take over the big downstairs room at nine to play for excitable audiences. On May 6, t-AANNY 09UENDO'S CONJUNTO LIBRE, JORGE DALTO & THE INTER-At-AERICAN BAND. and saxophonist BRANFORD MARSALIS, the guest jazz soloist, will all be here. . . . t1I Meanwhile, out on the Terrace, t-AICHAEL ABENE and t-AICHAEL MOORE provide piano-bass duets through Sunday, May 5; and singer Wendy Simon and pianist Eric Spiegel will move in on Tuesday, May 7. Jazz harpist DAPHNE HELLt-AAN also drops in on Tues- days. Sets began at nine-thirty. VILLAGE VANGUARD, 178 Seventh Ave. S., at 11th St. (255-4037)- The hallowed basement of jazz. Vibraharpist BOBBY HUTCHERSON heads up a quartet through Sunday, May 5, and on Tuesday, May 7, pianist CEDAR WALTON will begin guiding a hard-bop quintet The t-AEL LEWIS BIG BAND has the floor on Mondays. Mu- sic from ten. ZINNO. 126 W. 13th St. (924-5182)-Duos in a town-house restaurant: pianist ARMEN DONELIAN and bassist Dean Johnson through Saturday, May 4, and pianist JOHN HICKS and bassist RAY DRUt-At-AOND beginning Tuesday, May 7. Sun- days belong to guitarist GENE BERTONCINI and S-M-T-W-T-F-S 51 61 71 I 'I ( bassIst t-AICHAEL t-AOORE. and Monday's pairing is pianist Jim Roberts and Brian Torff. Music weeknights from eight and Sundays from seven. JAZZ / FOLK / ROCK CONCERTS. PERSONAL APPEARANCES. ETC. KEISHA ST. JOAN-With the Phil Young trio, in a benefit concert. (St. Matthew's and St. Timothy's Church, 26 W. 84th St. Friday, May 3, at 8. For information about tickets, call 362-6750.) GHOLAt-AHOSAIN JANATI-ATAIE ENSEt-ABLE-Alterna- tive Museum, 17 White St., three blocks south of Canal St., at Sixth Ave. 966-4444. Friday. May 3, at 8. PHOEBE SNow-With Junior Walker & the All- Stars. (Beacon Theatre, Broadway at 74th St. 874-1717. Saturday, May 4, at 8.) JACO PASTORiUS-With Word of Mouth. (Third Street Music School Settlement, 235 E 11th St. 777-3240. Saturday, May 4, at 8.) CRIS WILLIAt-ASON. TERESA TRULL. BARBARA HIGBIE, AND TRET FURE-With Carrie Barton and Cam Davis. (Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St. 840- 2824. Saturday, May 4. at 8.) Doo-WoPP, VOL. XIV-With Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge, the Channels, the Pas- sions, and others (Radio City Music Hall, Sixth Ave., at 50th St 246-4600. Saturday, May 4, at 8.) LEONARD COHEN-Carnegie Hall. 247-7800 Sun- day, May 5, at 8. LYRICS AND LYRICISTs-The last in a series of pro- grams entitled "Great Songwriting Teams Remembered," this one devoted to the music of Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson (Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, Lexington Ave., at 92nd St. 427- 4410. Sunday, May 5, at 2:30 and 8, and Monday. May 6, at 8.) WILLIAt-A BOLCOM AND JOAN MORRis-Town Hall. Friday, May 10, at 8 GUITARSTREAt-A '85-The first two in a series of seven concerts. Steve Morse, Larry Coryell, Laurindo Almeida, and others. (Carnegie Hall. Friday, May 10, at 8.) . . . t1I The Char- lie Byrd Trio, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, and Terry Jenoure & Brandon Ross (Carnegie Recital Hall 247-7800. Friday, May 10, at 11.) ELLY At-AELING-Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y. Saturday, May 11, at 8. IRVING PLAZA-Friday, May 3: Del Fuegos, the Egyptians, and Cries. . . . t1I Saturday, May 4: Long Ryders and Barrence Whitfield & the Savages. (17 Irving Pl., at 15th St. 477-3728. Shows start about 10 ) ART (U nless otherwise noted, galleries are open Tuesdays through Saturdays from around 10 or 11 to between 5 and 6.) GALLERIES-UPTOWN JACOBO BORGES-Figurative drawings and works on paper. Through May 18. (CDS Gallery, 13 E. 75th St. Open Mondays.) ANTONI CLAvÉ-Paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints by an abstractionist. Through May 31. (Silberberg, 16 E. 79th St Open Mondays.) KLAUS Fusst-AANN-Distorted self-portraits posed in landscapes, and still-lifes, in various mediums. Through June 1 (Lefebre, 47 E. 77th St.) JAt-AES GUY (1910-83) AND LouIS SCHANKER (1903- 81)-Paintings, drawings, and lithographs from the thirties and forties by two American modernists. Through May 18 (Diamond, 1014 Madison Ave., at 78th St ) EDWARD LEAR (1812-88)-An exhibition of memo- rabilia and a few original drawings by the master, plus sixty-two new illustrations of his nonsense by Joseph Low, and relevant art work by others. Through Saturday, May 11. (Schiller-Wapner, 1 E. 61st St. Open daily; opens at noon on Sundays) ABBY LEIGH-Highly stylized oils of figures and landscapes. Through May 18. (A. M. Adler, 21 E 67th St ) DAVID LEvINE-Watercolors of Coney Island (on and off the boardwalk) and portraits, includ- ing caricatures Through Friday, May 10. (Forum, 1018 Madison Ave.. at 79th St ) ALBERT MAR9uET (1875-194 7)-A large retro- spective of paintings and drawings. Through May 17. (Wildenstein, 19 E. 64th St Open Mondays; closed Saturdays.) HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)-A two-gallery ex- hibit that coincides with the large show of drawings at the Modern Drawings in ink, pencil, and charcoal at Davidson, 43 E. 78th St.; and prints next door at Isselbacher, 41 E. 78th St. Through May 18 PAUL RESIKA-Two shows. Land- and seascapes in oil, mostly of Cape Cod. Also, related drawings. Through May 18 (Graham, 1014 Madison Ave., at 78th St.) . . . t1I A survey of paintings from 1959 through 1984. Through May 19. (Artists' Choice, 394 West Broad- way. Open Sundays.) SUSAN ROTHENBERG-The artist has added splashes of color-yellows, reds-in her new canvases Through May 18 (Willard, 29 E. 72nd St ) CHARLES SEPLOWIN-Abstract sculptures in steel. Through May 25 (Cecil, 16 E. 72nd St.) ISAAC WITKIN-Open-form bronze sculptures, many chemically patinated in shades of blue and rose. Through May 18 (HirschI & Adler Modern, 851 Madison Ave.. at 70th St.) GROUP SHows-At the COLNAGHI, 26 E. 80th St.: Drawings by French artists from 1760 to 1880, including works by Girodet, Isabey, and Corot Through May 23. (Open Mon- days.) . . . HIRSCHL & ADLER, 21 E. 70th St.: A large exhibition devoted to the period in the history of American architecture and decora- tive arts which extended roughly from 1875 to 1920 and was exemplified by Karl Bitter's figure for the Plaza fountain (represented by a plaster maquette) and two transom win- dows designed by John La Farge. Through May 31. . . . HOFFELD, 1020 Madison Ave., at 76th St.: Paintings, primarily, from the thir- ties, forties, and fifties, by second-generatIon women surrealists, including Dorothea Tan- ning, Kay Sage, and Leonora Carrington. Through June 8. GALLERIES-57TH STREET AREA FERNANDO BOTERO-Outsize paIntings of the same crowd, this time at the bullfights; in one, the bull has tossed the matador into the air and he is ascending, blimplike, to heaven; outdoors are massive sculptures. Through May 25. (Marlborough, 40 W. 57th St. Open Mondays.) R. M. FISCHER-Stylized milled-metal sculptures to which found objects-a weathervane, for instance-are added. Through June 1. (Bas- kerville+Watson, 24 W. 57th St.) PATRICIA TOBACCO FORRESTER I At-AY F. SCOTT- Large-scale realist watercolors of woods, tropical flora, and so on I Colored-pencil drawings of still-lifes and garden scenes. Through May 22 (Fischbach, 24 W. 57th St. Open Mondays.) MAURICE FREEDt-AAN (1904-85)-Landscapes and seascapes, most done in the last ten years of the artist's life. Through Saturday, May 4. (Midtown, 11 E. 57th St.) PHILIP GUSTON (1913-80)-Paintings of single subjects-a shoe, a fist, a hooded figure. Through Saturday, May 4 (McKee, 41 E. 57th St.) RICHARD HAAS I STEPHEN BUCKLEy-Pastel draw- ings of N ew York buildings, including two of